Friday, June 29, 2018

No way does the racist demagogue deserve civility or respect. This is a man who made his name among the right wing base stoking racist fears about the most obstructed, most openly reviled sitting president in history. His incessant, patently gleeful language of hate and fear — infestation, invasion, rapists, murderers, the worst of the worst — plays into a long history of U.S. racism and xenophobia but represents a terrible, purposeful escalation. There are no two sides to this.